World Briefing | Asia: South Korea: 900 Sat Scores Canceled

By KAREN W. ARENSON

Published: March 13, 2007

The scores of all 900 students who took the SAT exam in South Korea in January will be canceled, the Educational Testing Service announced in South Korea on Friday. Tom Ewing, a spokesman for the testing service, which is responsible for security issues involving the College Board's college admissions exam, said an investigation had shown that an unknown number of students had seen at least a portion of the test before the exam was given on Jan. 27. Because the number could not be determined, he said, all the scores were being canceled. Students will be able to retake the test or accept a refund. In the early 1990s, thousands of Graduate Record Exam scores were canceled across most of India, Mr. Ewing said, and in 1992 about 10,000 scores on the TOEFL, a test measuring fluency in English, were canceled in China. KAREN W. ARENSON